Intel press party turns up the Heat

TechEye got trashed at Intel’s press party last night – in both senses. On our team we co-opted Andrew Charlesworth and Tony Smith, but even that didn’t help too much.

The team: Mad Mike Magee, Matthew Finnegan, Tony Dennis, Andrew Charlesworth, Tamlin Magee, Tony Smith. We perhaps should have put the name of our team, OchAye, on the answer papers.

The challenge. Beating the other, many teams that hadn’t already had several pints in the now famous Porcupine, before Intel UK dispensed its largesse. Despite having headed Intel notepaper with forged signatures telling the Heat team they were disqualified, despite having headed Intel notepaper with forged signatures telling the Future Publishing team they were really Past Publishing. Despite everything, we got trashed, and didn’t get to win Ultrabooks or anything else for that matter. The only thing we got to win was an ill-deserved reputation for mischief.

The forging went down well. We were dissuaded from stealing the Ultrabook in the corner. There was a whole series of questions related to Ultrabooks. We guess our answers to the effect about the same thinness as Apple notebooks but using not quite as expensive materials as Apple notebooks didn’t quite hit the hotspit (sic).